COMRISK SPEAKERS - Commodity Trading Week

TOM JAMES

CEO & CIO
Tradeflow Capital Management

Tom James is CIO & CEO and a co-founder of the Trade Flow Funds the innovative digitised trade finance solution for bulk physical commodity transactions being shipped or stored around the world. After 2 years+ of FinTech development and planning the Digital Trade Finance Fund for USD deals went live in 2018, operating the new approach to physical commodity trade & Inventory finance. This was followed by the launch of a Euro fund in February 2020. He is the business and system architect for the solution which meets both industry needs and investor appetites combining a unique business model with proven risk management approaches, a fund platform, and Fintech for scalability. His co-founders complete the cross-discipline team necessary to develop and operate the trade finance solution and fund, coming from a legal, maritime, and I.T. background.
He has over 30 years of commercial exposure gained through a broad range of senior executive roles in trading, investment management, commodity finance (Trade and Project) & advisory. He is called upon by governments & multinationals for advice & insight on market developments. In 2014 he was called upon to serve as a Senior Energy Advisor to the United States Department of Defense (TFBSO) and he currently sits on the “Financing Advisory Resources” panel for Enterprise Singapore, the trade development body of the Singapore Government.
Tom is a serial Commodity FinTech entrepreneur with a history of combining technology with best practices in order to create innovative industry services & solutions within the Commodity Industry. He is also a successful published author, having documented and shared his deep industry expertise through a series of 9 books and publications with Wiley Finance, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer.

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